Recipe book : manuscript, [1835-1855].

Format:

Manuscript

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chemistry--History.

Chemistry.

History.

Cooking, American.

Dyes and dyeing.

Traditional medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.

Traditional medicine.

Veterinary prescriptions.

Wine and wine making.

Genre:

Manuscripts, English.

Cookbooks -- Nineteenth century (dates CE).

Recipes.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased from Carmen D. Valentino (Philadelphia), 2001.

Physical Description:

1 volume (22 leaves) ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

[1835-1855].

Summary:

Comprises a few culinary recipes for curing and preserving meats, butter, potatoes, and fruit; but consists mostly of recipes for natural dyes, inks, household products, traditional medicine, veterinary medicine, vegetable wines, and beer. Includes a number of recipes for herbal remedies for bruises, sores,"hooping cough," deafness, piles, warts, corns, tetters, epilepsy, colds and coughs, and concludes with a "beautiful chemical experiment" demonstrating the action of alkali and acid, which can be performed as entertainment for a tea party.

Notes:

Written in one hand, perhaps copied from an earlier collection of recipes compiled by the writer's father, identified on the front cover as a chemist who made his own family medicines.

No attribution, date, or place. One item, copied from a published source, is dated 1820. Probably written in New England or the Middle Atlantic region; medicinal and veterinary recipes were copied from a variety of publications including the Boston Traveller, New England Farmer, American Farmer, Mechanics Register, Boston Medical Intelligencer, and the Washington Federalist.

No pagination. Manuscript includes a section of recipes (10 leaves) sewn in the front on different paper (with the watermark C BURBANK) from that of the remainder of the volume.

Binding: paper wrapper with title "Recipes" and a note on the front cover.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 397

OCLC:

225087300